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page Chromecast Instructions how to setup your chromecasts with Home Assistant. 2015-01-24 14:39 false false true true

Chromecasts have recently received a new API which is not yet supported by Home Assistant. Therefore we currently can only detect them and do not know what they are up to.

Interacts with Chromecasts on your network. Will be automatically discovered if you setup the discovery component. Can also be forced to load by adding the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

chromecast:

Services

Media control services

Available services: turn_off, volume_up, volume_down, media_play_pause, media_play, media_pause, media_next_track

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Target a specific chromecast. Defaults to all.

Media play services

There are three services to start playing YouTube video's on the ChromeCast.

Service chromecast/play_youtube_video

Service to start playing a YouTube vide on the Chromecast.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Target a specific chromecast. Defaults to all.
video no YouTube video to be played, ie. L0MK7qz13bU

Service chromecast/start_fireplace and chromecast/start_epic_sax

Will either start a fireplace or Epic Sax Guy 10h on the Chromecast.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Target a specific chromecast. Defaults to all.